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... lectuals who have tried to break it down have generally done more harm than good . At bottom it is the same quality in the English character that repels the tourist and keeps out the invader . Here one comes back to two English ...
... lectuals who have tried to break it down have generally done more harm than good . At bottom it is the same quality in the English character that repels the tourist and keeps out the invader . Here one comes back to two English ...
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... it will be deeply tinged with the charac- teristics that I have spoken of earlier . The intel- lectuals who hope to see it Russianized or Germanized will be disappointed . The gentleness , the hypocrisy THE LION AND THE UNICORN 43.
... it will be deeply tinged with the charac- teristics that I have spoken of earlier . The intel- lectuals who hope to see it Russianized or Germanized will be disappointed . The gentleness , the hypocrisy THE LION AND THE UNICORN 43.
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